Mom Drops Off Mentally Disabled Daughter At Bar - Faces No Charges
A woman from Illinois says she just could not handle her daughter anymore and didn't know what to do with her, so when the girl needed to use the bathroom while they were driving in Tennessee, the mom pulled over and let her daughter out and then drove away back to Illinois. The mom is refusing to take her daughter back, who is now 19. The teen was unable to tell police her name or her address. Close circuit cameras from across the street of the bar managed to get a license plate number of the mom's vehicle and eventually all the dots were connected. The mom left her daughter, who has a 30 word vocabulary with no money and no identification. However, because her daughter is over the age of 18, the mom didn't actually commit a crime. The daughter is in the custody of Adult Protective Services in Tennessee. What do you do if you are a parent? There is no excuse for dropping her off in another state with nothing to help her live. She managed to raise her for the first 19 years of her life, but probably thought it was not going to end. It probably was going to be a very long life, but your daughter had no one to take care of her. Just you. And you abandoned her? At a bar? In a different state? With no money or identification.